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"Beautiful Youth" to premiere at Sacramento Film & Music Festival
by Dora Bromme, published on August 15, 2011 at 12:19 PM
Storyline: In the Community
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The Sacramento Film & Music Festival will be hosting the premiere of Jennifer Lystrup’s film “Beautiful Youth,” a documentary that highlights the issue of youth homelessness in Sacramento, to the public. The documentary sheds light on 10 homeless youths and tells their stories in their own voices.
The 47-minute film will be shown at the Crest Theatre at 6 p.m. on Thursday.
“I’m so happy to even have this opportunity,” Lystrup said, “It’d be really nice if people from the local city government show up because this is an issue that needs to be addressed.”
In a previous Sacramento Press article on the documentary, Lystrup said she had hoped to get a public screening for the film in the future, though no date had been arranged.
Tony Sheppard, one of the directors for the festival, said that they decided to keep a programming slot open for the festival in case something came along at the last minute, and he was “pondering that time slot when I saw that article.”
Sheppard also said that they have the opportunity to show the film twice if the public reception calls for it.
“If it seems there’s some buzz around it, we’ll show it a second time that night,” Sheppard said. The second screening would be at 8 p.m.
“I hope a lot of people show up to it and listen to the voices of the young people,” she said.
Lystrup will be available after the screening to talk about her experience in the making of the film. Sonny Iverson from Wind Youth Services, who helped with the outreach in the film, will be attending the screening also, along with Raven Hoopes and Michelle Lopez from Harm Reduction Services.
For more information on the festival and the other films being shown, visit the website.
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Transition age includes foster youth who upon turning 18 are often abandoned by their foster family. Also, 18 is the age that the parents of the 18y/o can legally absolve themselves of any further obligation. These are the homeless youth that are slipping thru the cracks, not getting the help they need and deserve. Years down the road, still homeless, they flood and adult shelters and services such as Loaves and Fishes, Salvation Army, etc...etc...
If there is anyone on this forum that has a true interest in helping, and some knowledge of social services, can any of you please explain to me why it is that there are no transition age youth services in Sacramento, and many other cities and states? And if you can answer that question, can you also explain to me how it makes sense to NOT have this type of service integrated into the system of care? Because as I see it, that is why we have so many homeless age 30-60.
I found on the larkin street website, (which is a homeless service provider organization in SF that works with homeless youth ages 0-24) a pie chart that represented the youth pop they work with; approximately 23% of the youth 0-17, and 77% of the youth 18-24. I crunched the numbers for the youth in Sacramento and the percentages are nearly identical. That coupled with my experience on street outreach, where most of the youth I see are 18-24, tells me that there is something hugely wrong with the way our service provider system is set up
18-24, and even just 18-22, is a population that is completely ignored by society. Someone that I confide, talked with me about my frustration concerning this issue, and I expressed my suspicions that the reason this population of homeless is being ignored is because, if there were an organization addressing it, it would ultimately cut down on a HUGE portion of the adult population of homelessness, ultimately causing funding for adult homeless services to decrease. If homelessness is being addressed at the early stages, the success rate of getting these people off the streets increases, therefore leaving a much smaller adult population of homelessness, which would require less $$.
My friend agreed that that could VERY WELL be the case. He pointed out how our prison system functions in much the same capacity. If these criminals actually got help to rehabilitate and reform, what would all the prison guards do for work? They would all lose their jobs!!! "Did you know that there is a prison guard's Union?!" So that is how the union protects the prison guards from losing their jobs; keep the prison population criminal minded w/out hope or help to reform, and you got a $ maker!!
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